Re: 2 Of Every 5 Gulf War Vets Are On Disability - WorldNetDaily.com

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

Is there a government source to verify these figures?  I have mentioned
them in class, but students want some verification.
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Michael Perelman

***** Department of Veterans Affairs
Office of Public Affairs
News Service
Washington, D.C. 20420
(202) 273-5700
VA Fact Sheet
April 2000

Illnesses of Gulf War Veterans

...Disability Compensation

Since early 1995, VA has been providing compensation payments to chronically disabled Gulf War veterans with undiagnosed illnesses. This benefit was expanded under an April 29, 1997, regulation that essentially eliminated the date of initial manifestation of latent symptoms as a consideration in adjudication through the end of the year 2001. A disability is considered chronic if it has existed for at least six months.

Outside of the new regulation, VA has long based monthly compensation for veterans on finding evidence a condition arose during or was aggravated by service. VA has approved more than 183,037 claims of Gulf veterans for service injuries or illnesses of all kinds, including 3,117 approved under the undiagnosed illnesses regulation (latest statistics at http://www.va.gov/pubaff/gulfvets.htm)....

<http://www.va.gov/gulfwar/docs/GWFACTSHEETAPR00.DOC> *****

***** Veterans Benefits Administration
Office of Performance Analysis and Integrity
Data and Information Services
May 2002 Gulf War Veterans Information System
Briefing For:
National Gulf War Resource Center
September 10, 2002

...Gulf War Veterans Information System
May 2002 GWVIS Summary Report
Category Conflict Theater Deployed Era Total

Service 696,778 430,680 1,127,458 4,388,819 5,516,277
Members
Estimated 572,833 278,647 851,480 2,516,737 3,368,217
Veterans

Claims 206,861 78,431 285,292 714,452 999,744
Filed

Claims 183,249 67,955 251,204 663,118 914,322
Processed

Claims 159,238 62,264 221,502 587,460 808,962
Granted

<http://www.ngwrc.org/pdf/GWVISreportSeptember2002.pdf> *****
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Yoshie

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